History and Contributions of Eric Gill

This typeface they used for “Elizabeth” is a serif face and also a display face. This typeface reminds me of the “Gothic letter”. The letters themselves are readable and clear enough to recognize. However, the space between the letters

I started to research more into Seb Lester, and then I found someone called Thomas Quinn. Thomas Quinn is an Anamorphic Typographer. The design I took an interest in, is the one that says “FACE REALITY AS IT IS”. This design

Trajan harmonizes poorly with most body text typefaces, and its refined scale and extreme formality rarely seem suitable for book work. It is impossible to set the type in a suitably large size, leaving characters that ought to appear imposing and grand looking feeble alongside a more robust text type.

Wonder Brush Script was designed by Friedrich Poppl in 1969 to challenge and force designers, working with this typeface, to change and manipulate this font with their creativity. This typeface has been used a numerous of times by designers wanting to reflect a natural handwritten font in their designs on stores and restaurants. The history of designers that used this typeface has influenced the meaning given to this font by making it a more casual and “playful” version of Brush Script (Brush Script was the original typeface that mimicked the stylization of handwritten fonts). Because of the history of this typeface, consumers of design are conditioned to expect this type to be used within context of a restaurant's logo or information that isn’t authentic or original. This because type designers have created that stereotype with these particular typefaces by over using for restaurants. This make the restaurant seem like “good quality” when really when consumers view this typeface they associate the overused font with the food and assume that it's going to be cheap and

The typeface I chose for this research is Times New Roman. I like this typeface out of all the other. You can use this font in many different ads, magazine, books, and etc. this font was first evented in Times New Roman is a Transitional serif typeface designed by Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent. It was released through Monotype in 1931. The design was based off Plantin , but with a renewed focus on legibility and economy to better meet the needs of newspaper typography. Times New Roman is one of the most ubiquitous typefaces of the digital publishing age due to it being the default font for numerous word processing applications and web browsers. In Times New Roman's name, Roman is a reference to the regular style of a conventional serif font. Times New Roman was a metal type created in the late sixteenth century by the French artisan Robert Granjon

Typeface has got to be a character through the narrative. It should really carry a part of the story.

P22 was created in 1944 by Marcel Duchamp and Joan Miro. They were surrealists. They set out to create fonts in a new way. They would put each of their ideas onto flat cards and floppy disks and sell them to museums. They even got a child to create a font. The child created all the characters. Their fonts were sold to museums. At the time, there was not a real approach to selling fonts. So this got the font designers to create fonts and sell them to museums. They knew museums were where all the designers who would want to buy fonts went, and they would sell them better there.

In the previous installment of this series, we took a closer look at Transitional style typefaces, so-called because they mark a transition from the former Old Style types—epitomized by Baskerville—and the subject of today’s brief history, the Moderns, also known as Didone (the terms Modern and Didone are used synonymously throughout this article).

Alan Meeks was born in London, England in 1951. He graduated, and joined Graphic Systems as a trainee artist, typographer and typeface designer. In 1975 he joined Letraset as senior designer and was chiefly responsible along with Colin Brignall in making Letraset into a serious font foundry. After he started his career with “Graphic Systems” in the 1970’s as a lettering artist. (non digital in those days). “where he designed over 40 Typefaces whilst being in charge of all the artwork output of Letraset with a studio of ten artists and designers and an army of freelancers around the world.” (https://www.myfonts.com/person/Alan_Meeks/. ) The originaly typographic artwork that was produced at Letraset was done by stencil cutting; all the fonts

The journal entry discussed the importance of using typefaces that reflect the project or company that it’s going to be representing. Companies have invested a lot of money to developed a certain image around their brand. They're want to maintain that persona and attracted a particular audience, so their advertising products needs to appeal to that demographic. As an designer, it’s important to do the proper research and figure out the right way to approach the project.

Ray Larabie is from Ottawa, Canada. He has been creating fonts since he was young. His grandmother used to bring home stacks of dry-transfer lettering from work and give it to him. He studied these papers and learned all about fonts. He fell in love with fonts and memorized all of their names. When Ray got his first computer that is when he decided to start creating his own fonts. In the 1990’s, he started making free fonts and releasing them on his website called Ray Larabie Freeware Typeface of the week. Eventually he changed his website name to Larabie Fonts (Typodermic Fonts, 1). In 2001, he started a commercial font venture. Two years later he was able to quit his job as an Art Director at a video game company and work full time creating

Typography is a crucial part of our history and has existed since the dawn of man. When humans first stepped out of their caves and into the open world, they wanted to tell stories. In order to spread these ideas, they required writing. Although various interesting scripts exist through the ages, one interesting period is from 1750 to 1300 BC. There were various types of writing in this time period, each with their own unique styles and uses, few even inspire people in the modern world. It's fascinating that countless different types of writing exist within this time span. Writings from these time periods can easily illustrate how ancient type was used and how it affects modern day.

Franklin Gothic is a bold, sans serif typeface that was designed in 1902 by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Typefounders Company. This modern typeface has hugely impacted in the press and advertisement industry for more than a hundred years. There has been a few restyling done to the typeface. Franklin Gothic is one the most successful fonts of all time. It was named after one of the most iconic American printers, Benjamin Franklin. It was originally intended to be a bold variant for other gothic fonts but in 1904, the designers and typesetters started to use it more extensively.

Born in 1865 in Bloomington Illinois, Frederick William Goudy would not find his passion for typeface design until later on in his life. Goudy first became a marketing designer and later the art director for Lanston Monotype where he held this position for more than twenty-five years. Later on he also became a lecturer at Syracuse University's School of Journalism in New York. In his older years, he started transitioning into being a typeface designer and he designed his first typeface in 1896; it was entitled Camelot. (Wikipedia, 2018). Throughout the years he continued designing until he was commissioned to produce a typeface for Robert Nelson, the president at the time for the type foundry, American Type Founders Company (Goudy, 1946, p.92).

edges. Licko also created one of the first vector fonts that worked well with the screen